Black Hat
How fast can security pros detect a breach?
Tripwire announced the results of a survey of 215 attendees at the Black Hat USA 2014 security conference in Las Vegas. Industry research shows most breaches go undiscovered …
US switch to chip-and-PIN cards not a panacea for fraud
The massive breach that Target suffered late last year was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back and made the company decide to move to chip-and-PIN card …
Smart Nest thermostat easily turned into spying device
At this year’s edition of the Black Hat security conference, a group of researchers has shown how extremely easy is to hack into the smart thermostats manufactured by …
A walk through Black Hat USA 2014
Here’s a walk through video of the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2014. The video features: Qualys Firemon iBoss Crowdstrike Palo Alto Networks Shape Security Pwnie …
Serious flaws in cell phone carrier control software found
At the Black Hat conference this week, two Accuvant researchers have disclosed serious security flaws in the carrier control software used in over 2 billion cellular devices …
End-to-end encryption hardware for unsecure networks
x.o.ware has debuted the ExoNetTM VPEx Gateway and its companion product, the ExoKey Secure Communications Extension, this week at Black Hat USA 2014. These two new products, …
Mocana offers an alternative to OpenSSL on Apache web servers
At the Black Hat USA 2014 conference, Mocana debuted its enterprise-grade NorthStar secure connectivity solution for Apache web servers, a highly secure, drop-in replacement …
Unified solution for dynamic mitigation of cyberattacks
At Black Hat USA 2014, ForeScout Technologies, provider of pervasive network security solutions for Global 2000 enterprises and government organizations, and ThreatStream, a …
Yahoo will offer end-to-end mail encryption by 2015
Since the beginning of this year, Yahoo has had several good news for its customers: Yahoo Mail got HTTPS on by default, and the company began encrypting all the traffic …
Photo gallery: A walk through Black Hat’s Business Hall
This gallery from Black Hat features: Qualys, Blue Coat Systems, FireEye, Shape Security, Michael Schrenk, Gigamon, Securonix, ThreatTrack Security.
Free Android app identifies and uninstalls spyware
At Black Hat, SnoopWall announced the release of Privacy App for Android platform mobile devices. Privacy App is based upon the company’s counterveillance technology. It …
CIA’s venture firm CISO offers singular solutions for cyber problems
In a eclectic keynote delivered to the Black Hat conference audience, Dan Geer, CISO at In-Q-Tel, made known his thoughts on and ideas about a number of things: from Internet …